New law lecturers
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Since graduating from Nottingham University in 1981 with a bachelor's degree in law, Miss Hall has gained wide experience. This include teaching part-time for six years at her alma mater, where she lectured in the English legal system and criminal law, and three years in private practice when she specialised in civil and matrimonial litigation. Since 1985 and until coming to the Cayman Islands, she served as a magistrate's court clerk at the Nottingham Magistrate's Court.
At the Law School, her areas of specialisation include civil and criminal procedure, the law of tort, conveyancing and legal accounting.
Mr. Fitzpatrick, lectures at the Law School on criminal law, conflict of laws, and law of equity and trusts. He is a barrister, having been admitted to the bar of Northern Ireland in 1983, following a qualifying year at the Institute of Professional Legal Studies in Belfast and six months' pupillage. In pratice he specialised in criminal law and civil litigation.
He is a graduate of Queen's University, Belfast, where a distinguised academic record was capped with the award of the Stanley Austin Memorial Prize for Research in International Law on graduation in 1981 with an LL.B (Hons.) degree. Previous honours included the award of the university's 1977-1981 Foundation Entrance Scholarship, designed to attract the best students to the university, and the Thwaites Travelling Scholarship for Northern Ireland, awarded by the Department of Education to the top male and female students each year in the region's secondary schools.
The new law lecturer said he had always had an interest in teaching. "It was a fifty/fifty choice whether I would practice or go into teaching law," he said, welcoming the opportunity to explore and expand this new aspect of his career.
His new post also satisfies an interest in travelling and working on this side of the Atlantic.
Among his hobbies he includes squash. (GIS)
